Why do I get a “conflicting types for getline” error when compiling the longest line example in chapter 1 of K&R2?

Question

Here is a program I\'m trying to run straight from section 1.9 of \"The C Programming Language\".

#include 
#define MAXLINE 1000

int getline(         


        

Answer 1

The problem is that getline() is a standard library function. (defined in stdio.h) Your function has the same name and is thus clashing with it.

The solution is to simply change the name.